theology
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The Roman Catholic Church and the gender binary
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8 min read
or how Catholics use natural law to avoid doing theology. Pope on Gender: “Stop oppressing my oppressive ideology!” I get that it must be confusing. You grew up looking at the world and thinking there are only two options. And really, they seem like the only real ones anyway. Man or Woman. Coke or Pepsi.…
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The Imperfect Path
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8 min read
The challenge of faith is that we don’t get to say who are “real Christians”.
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When a name is about us
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5 min read
5. Even the name given to Moses expresses “withness” saying I will be there howsoever I will be. One of the worst kept secrets in the world is that God’s name isn’t “God.” It’s like the town drunk who we we all know [wink, wink] doesn’t have a problem. We all agree to pretend like it is…
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When shallow Christianity drowns in a mighty flood, the prosperity gospel is no life preserver. Joel Osteen had a terrible week. But that’s only because his devotion to the prosperity gospel put him there. It wasn’t God. I suppose this really is a kind of “reap what you sow” kind of moment. It was the…
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What’s with some Christians suddenly endorsing nuclear war? The idea pisses me off. But it doesn’t surprise me. It seems like an inevitable, given our present state. Not that war is inevitable (though I fear it may be). But that some Christians are always making it harder on the rest of us. And at the…
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I never got the devil. Satan. I never believed it existed. My earliest memories of Satan were the conflicted and stretched arguments of cartoons and Bible stories in church, none of which made the devil ever seem real. It was like thinking thunder came from God bowling in the clouds or stepping on a crack…